User:Martinwheatman

Hello, this is Martin Wheatman's user page.

My Story
I am interested in languages, compilers and the process of creating software. I obtained my Bachelors degree, BSc in Computer Science, from the Hatfield Polytechnic in 1986, and joined the British Computer Society as a Chartered Engineer in 1992. In 1993, I enrolled at Lancaster University to develop an Object Management System for my Masters, MPhil in Computer Science, which was awarded in 1999. At the end of this journey I took some time to think about the interface to an OMS, with respect to the relationship between the Relational model and Structured Query Languages. Because an OMS models real world entities, rather than reducing its representation to a series of tables, the interface needed to be related to natural (i.e. context dependent) languages, rather than context-free programming languages, like SQL. At the time, the Turing Test and the maintenance of a conversation was key to defining intelligence, the notion of a chatbot falls short of machine interaction.

In 2002, I read about the principles of Informatics as had been described in the late C19th and early C20th, in the Semiotics of Charles Sanders Peirce and and Semiology of Ferdinand de Saussure. Then, in 2005, I enrolled at the University of Reading in the School for a PhD in Computer Science to study the links between Semiotics and Software development.

Following this, in 2011, I set about applying this research to the problem of NLP. I used my interpretation of translation and transformation in the processing of utterances, leading to the creation of /Enguage in 2013.

Personal
I live in the Ribble Valley, UK, with my long term partner and our four children.